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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. WOOD, OF OAK LAWN, RI-IODE ISLAND.

FOLDING CAR-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,610, dated March29, 1898. Application filed May 1, 1897. $erial No. 634,775. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. WOOD, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Oak Lawn, in the State of Rhode Island, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Folding Oar-.

Gates, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a car-gate which is adapted tofold into a small of a car, showing the gate in its closed condition.Fig. 2 represents the same with the gate in its opened condition andfolded at the end of the car. Fig. 3 represents the side view of thegate when in its closed condition. Fig. 4 represents an enlarged detailview broken away to show the locked condition of the upper joint betweenthe folding parts of the gate. Fig. 5 represents a similar view showingthe unlocked condition of the upper joint. Fig. 6 represents a View ofthe upper joint, showing a section taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5 whenthe hinged parts of the gate are turned at a right angle to each other.Fig. 7 represents a view of the upper joint when the hinged parts of thegate are in their folded condition. Fig. Sis a detail sectional view onthe line 8 8 of Fig. 7, showing the locked condition of the joint whenthe parts of the gate are in their folded condition. Fig. 9 is asectional View showing a modification in the locking means. taken on theline 10 10 of Fig. 9, showing the position of the disengaging cam in thelocked closed position of the gate. Fig. 11 is a similar section showingthe position of the cam in the folded position of the gate.

In the drawings, A represents the platform of the car; B, the steps; 0,the end wall of the car, and D the car-door. The gate E is made in twoparts a and b, which are hinged to each other at the joints 0 and (1, sothat the said two parts may be folded together, as

shown in Fig. 2. The pivot-rod e of the gatesections aand b passes,loosely through suitable perforations made in the ears f f of the upperjoint and the corresponding ears 9 g Fig. 10 represents a section of thelower joint, the said ears ff being provided with the perforations h hand h 71/, made to come in line with each other both when the gate isclosed, as shown in Fig. 1, and when in its open and folded condition,as shown in Fig. 2, the said perforations h h and h h being made atequal distances from the axis of the pivot-rod e, the said pivot-rodbeing provided with the handle 71 and the lock ing-pins jj, which areheld in the perforations h h of the ear'f of the outer portion a of thegate and adapted to enter the perforations h h of the ear f of the innerportion 17 of the gate, thus serving to lock the two parts of the gatein either the opened or the closed position of the same, thesaidlocking-pins j 3' being held in engagement with the perforations h hof the ear fby means of the spiral spring In, which, by acting againstthe pin Zof the pivot-rod e, serves to cause the forcible down wardmovement of the said locking-pinsj j, the locked condition of the jointfor the closed position of the gate being shown in Fig. 4 and for theopen and folded condition of the gate in Figs. 7 and 8.

The inner portion 1) of the gate is jointed to the pintles m m, securedto the end wall of the car, and to the bearing-brackets nn,which projectfrom the corner of the car, is pivoted the swinging arm F,'the saidswinging arm being jointed at the point 0 to the top of the outerportion a of the gate, so that when the gate is closed, as shown in Fig.1, the arm F will form a brace for the. gate against outward movementand will fold inward to the position shown in Fig. 2 upon opening thegate, and at its opened, folded, and locked condition, as shown in Fig.2, the lower end of the pivot-rod e will be caught and retained by thecatch 19, arranged upon the platform A of the car, so that upon theunlocking of the joint by raising the rod e against the downward actionof the spring is the gate may be readily opened out to its closedposition, as shown in Fig. 1.

A modification of the locking means for the joint of the gate-sectionsis shown in' Fig. 9, in which the pivot-rod e of the joint is adaptedfor turning movement instead of a sliding 1 movement, and alocking-spring t is arranged upon the side of the section b of the gate,the

said locking-spring being provided with the spur M, which is adapted toengage with the notch {v to look the joint of the gate in its openedposition and with the opposite notch '12 to lock the gate in its foldedposition, the said notches being made at opposite sides of the ear fofthe section a of the gate. The pivot-rod e is adapted for partialrotation in the ear fof the outer portion a of the gate and is providedwith the attached cam w, having the notch w, and with theoperating-handle 1 Upon the initial movement of the pivotrod e by meansof the handle '5 the action of the cam 10 upon the end of thelocking-spring 25 will serve to cause the disengagement of the saidspring from the locking-notch v or 'u, as the case may be, after whichthe engagement of the side of the notch w with the pin 00, at-

tached to the ear f of the outer portion a of the gate, will serve tocause the proper opening or closing movement.

I claim as my invention-' 1. 'In a folding car-gate, the combination ofthe folding gate-sections, with the swinging rod or brace which controlsthe folding movement, and means for looking the folding joint of thegate, substantially as described.

2. In a folding car-gate, the combination of the folding gate-sections,with the sliding pivot-rod adapted to lock the gate at the foldingjoint, substantially as described.

3. In a folding car-gate, the combination of the folding gate-sections,with the swinging rod which controls the folding movement, the slidingpivot-rod, and the catch for the lower end of the pivot-rod for holdingthe gate in its folded condition at the end of the car, substantially asdescribed.

4:. In a folding car-gate, the combination of the folding gate-sections,provided with the locking perforations, with the sliding pivotrodprovided with the locking-pins, substantially as described.

5: In a folding car-gate, the combination of the folding gate-sectionshaving the locking perforations made in their joint'-ears,with thesliding pivot-rod provided with the lockingpins adapted to enter thelocking perforations of the gate-sections, and the spring for holdingthe pivot-rod in looking engagement, substantially as described.

JOHN B. WOOD.

Witnesses:

SOCRATES SOHOLFIELD, J AMES THoMsoN, Jr.

